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First mated flight of the MD-21 with Lockheed test pilot Bill Park at Groom Lake. 28 December 1966: Decision to terminate A-12 program by June 1968. 31 May 1967: A-12s conduct Black Shield operations out of Kadena; 3 November 1967: A-12 and SR-71 conducted a reconnaissance fly-off, codenamed NICE GIRL.
1967 – Lockheed A-12, 60-6928, Article 125, lost during training/test flight. CIA pilot Walter Ray successfully ejects but is killed upon impact with terrain due to failed seat-separation sequence. The Air Force-issue seatbelt failed to release properly.
March 9, 1967 Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, collided in mid-air with a private Beechcraft 55 (N6127V) near Urbana, Ohio, killing all 26 on board both aircraft. November 6, 1967 Flight 159, a Boeing 707-131, overran the runway and crashed following an aborted takeoff at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, killing one of 36 on ...
Piece of metal from Walter Ray's Lockheed A-12. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's secret "OXCART" program suffered its first fatality as a Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance jet ran out of fuel while attempting to return to the Area 51 landing strip in Nevada. Pilot Walter Ray reported that he had run out of fuel sooner than expected.
Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno (born 1937 in Chicago, Illinois [1]) is a professional musician, teacher, author, and lecturer.In 1967, Pellegreno and a crew of three successfully flew the same type aircraft, Lockheed 10 Electra, to complete a world flight that closely mirrored Amelia Earhart's flight plan in 1937.
1967 – First flight of the Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy, large, wide-bodied US cargo aircraft used for aerial transport of outsized cargo components. 1963 – Central Intelligence Agency pilot Ken Collins is forced to eject from Lockheed A-12, 60-6926, Article 123, during subsonic test flight when aircraft stalls due to inaccurate data being ...
1967 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 708, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes on landing at Sam Ratulangi Airport, killing 22 of 84 passengers on board; all 8 crew survive. 1967 – First flight of the MBB Bö 105 D-HDCI, a German light, twin-engine, multi-purpose utility helicopter.
1967; Pages in category "Aircraft first flown in 1962" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. ... Lockheed A-12; Lockheed XH-51; Lockheed XV-4 ...